[EL] Strange PPP poll results about ACORN

[Scarberry, Mark]

I still can't find the actual PPP poll that Ben Adler referenced, but I did find a PPP poll released in September 2010 that shows nearly as many Democrats as Republicans believing that ACORN would steal the 2010 congressional elections: 21% vs. 23%. See p. 10 of the pdf file at http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/PPP_Release_National_914.pdf. At p. 7 it seems to show (if I'm reading the crosstabs chart correctly) that 24% of liberals thought ACORN would steal the election as compared to 25% of conservatives.

All of this even though PPP says that ACORN was defunct by that time: "Despite being a defunct organization, 20% of Americans still think ACORN will steal this fall's election for the Democrats, though twice as many, 40%, do not think this will happen."

I am not left with much confidence in PPP's polling on ACORN.

Mark S. Scarberry
Professor of Law
Pepperdine Univ. School of Law

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